ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL

ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL, a rural-scale secondary school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, run under SOUTH SAN ANTONIO ISD, works with 62 students, covering grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL sits 92% below that benchmark.

SOUTH SAN ANTONIO ISD comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 7,987 students; ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (98%) are Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Bexar County (around 63%), the school's rate is north of typical.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Bexar County indicate median household earnings sit near $72,341, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

Nearest neighbor: ROBERT C ZAMORA MIDDLE, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL operates from an urban location.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.